REVERSED

Attorney General Henry
Dargan McMaster, Chief Deputy Attorney General John W. McIntosh, Assistant
Deputy Attorney General Salley Elliott, and Assistant Attorney General Lance S.
Boozer, all of Columbia, for petitioner.

Appellate Defender Robert M. Pachak, of South Carolina
Commission on Indigent Defense, Division of Appellate Defense, of Columbia, for respondent.

PER CURIAM: Reversed
pursuant to Rule 220(b), SCACR, and the following authorities: Bennett
v. State, 371 S.C. 198, 638 S.E.2d 673 (2006) (where there has been a
guilty plea, applicant must prove prejudice by showing that, but for counsel’s
error, there is a reasonable probability he would not have pled guilty and
would have insisted on going to trial); Williams v. State, 363 S.C. 341,
611 S.E.2d 232 (2005) (where there is no evidence to support finding of
prejudice, grant of PCR is reversed).